Re: bootstrap & memory allocation troubles

[Chong Yidong]

Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:

> Recently, the malloc() implementation in FreeBSD changed to a new
> implementation by Jason Evans, and a posix_memalign() implementation
> was added to the standard library of the system.
>
> This seems to cause bootstrap problems for cvs-emacs now, but I'm not
> sure if this is something we should fix in Emacs or in the libc of
> FreeBSD.  The gdb trace that shows the problem is listed below, but
> I'd be grateful for any hints related to fixing this.
>
> Any ideas how the current posix_memalign() implementation could affect
> this, and/or tips to debug it?

BTW, the backtrace looks rather similar to the crashes people have
been experiencing with Linux hyperthreading/smp on some suse systems.